Some of the things we love to do.
We've been married for thirty three years and enjoy many of the same activities. We both enjoy traveling, computers, digital photography, hiking, political science, reading and gourmet cooking. Because of the cooking, we enjoy working out together! John also enjoys music, digital audio, programming and playing guitar. I enjoy machine embroidery and sewing, rocks, gems and minerals, making and wearing jewelry, designing dichroic glass, wearable art, gardening, scrapbooking, and posting my electronic cookbook, located under "Recipes" on our site. We have lived in California for over 33 years and enjoy the Mediterranean climate and the varied landscape.
My main hobby is making things on my BabyLock Solaris II, Destiny II and Aventura II. I love them. I take the Destiny if I go to classes because it has larger hoops than the Aventura II. The first photo below shows the Solaris II and the Destiny.
My Embroidery Room and some of my projects (click arrow):
Below are a few slide shows of things I've made.
Bench Pillows
Couch Pillows
Quilts
Kitchen Towels
Mesh Bags
Mug Rugs
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Purses
Potholders
These are our cameras, the Sony A1 with the Sony 100mm-400mm G-Master lens and the Sony A7R Mark IV with the Sony 200mm-600mm lens. We love them!
John started playing guitar when he first heard The Beatles. These are some of his guitars.
Digital audio workstations are a great way to experiment with different sounds and maybe compose some "music" along the way.
These are some items from John's "technology museum". He likes his electronic gadgets.
1. Sony Handycam CCD-TRV72 Hi-8 Analog Camcorder 2. Creative NOMAD Jukebox Zen .mp3 player 3. Addonics Pocket CD-RW Portable External Drive Ad-285 4. Nokia 5165 ATT Cellular Phone 5. Wolverine Data 80GB FlashPac 7000, 7-in-1 Portable Data Storage Device & Media Reader 6. 1985 Sony Wm-F15 Walkman AM/FM Cassette Player, 7. Grand Prix 8 Transistor Radio (circa 1965), 8. Casio EV-670 3" LCD TV (circa 2006), 9. Olympus Note Corder 100 Voice Recorder (circa 1996), 10. Franklin Merriam-Webster's Speaking Collegiate Dictionary (circa 2004), 11. Panasonic Rn-109 Handheld Cassette Voice Activated Recorder